Al Pacino The Latest Huge Name For Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood'

Pacino will reportedly be joining a line-up that already includes names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Burt Reynolds, Dakota Fanning and Damian Lewis.

The already hugely impressive cast list for the new Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood may have scored the biggest coup yet for the director, with reports that legendary screen and stage actor Al Pacino has signed up for a role.

In what will be a first Tarantino part for the iconic Scarface and The Godfather star, 78 year old Pacino will be playing the role of Marvin Shwarz, the agent of Leonardo DiCaprio’s washed-up actor Rick Dalton, in the star-studded movie, according to Variety.

Pacino is coming off the back of a well-received role as disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno for a HBO film, and is next appearing in a big-screen movie in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.

Al Pacino has reportedly signed up for Tarantino's new movie

It’s the latest addition to a recent flurry of names, from the past and present of Hollywood, who’ve signed up for Tarantino’s ninth movie. Just a few days ago, it was announced that Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning and Emile Hirsch had all signed up for parts – playing screen legend Steve McQueen, Manson family member Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme and stylist Jay Sebring respectively.

All the latest reports indicate that Once Upon A Time In Hollywood will have a similar kind of structure to Tarantino’s iconic Pulp Fiction, featuring a cut-up timeline and a vast roll-call of individuals wandering around Los Angeles in the summer of 1969. Of course, it was a time and place that was drastically affected by the Manson family murders in the area.

Filming for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is expected to take place in the late summer of 2018, with a release date of August 9th, 2019. It will be distributed by Sony, after the dissolution of The Weinstein Company who had partnered with Tarantino on all his previous works.